Operation Minsk

Operation Minsk (8 August 1919) was an operation launched by the Polish Army to capture the city of Minsk in Belarus from the Russian Bolsheviks during the Polish-Soviet War. 12,000 Polish infantry, 2,000 cavalry, and 40 artillery guns took part in the offensive against Minsk, and the Poles crippled the Soviets' western forces by taking their headquarters at Minsk and destroying their railroad tracks in the city. After the offensive, Jozef Pilsudski ordered for the Polish advance to halt, as he had virtually re-established the territories of Poland-Lithuania before the Russian invasion of 1795.